Big companies have great execution habits to manage and improve proven and successful business models and value propositions. But those execution habits can easily kill any potential new growth engines inside the corporation. In this post we break down the 11 corporate habits killing your company’s innovation engine. How are you avoiding them?
Via Edouard Siekierski

Anne Landreat's insight:

Bad Habit #9: Innovation is career suicide in most organizations

Bad Habit #10: The innovation engine is siloed from the execution engine

It’s been a blast. A year has passed already since I’ve started getting involved in an amazing people-centric transformation project. Now is a good time to look back and reflect on the progress that happened, what remains to be done, and what I’ve learnt along the way.

Conversation is the purest form of interaction and should be the basis for higher level designs.

Anne Landreat's insight:

"Conversation is the purest interaction possible. It mimics the iterative process people use to think through and analyze decisions and learn new things. In a conversation, a person asks a simple high-level question, then iteratively drills down into specifics, with the option to take a tangent if needed. It’s also very close to how humans naturally analyze problems. "

Empathy as a Precursor to InnovationAnd once again…relationships take centre stage

The role of empathy in innovation is a constant reminder that innovation requires relationships. How can we possibly understand what someone needs if we do not know them?...

We need to find the soul of our data and that soul is always found in the stories of those we serve. We need to understand those we serve — the students, their families, our staff, in order to improve upon what we already do. We need to stop acting from what we think we know and listen to those we serve, to find what is truly needed. The key is empathy.

Design management is a complex field; it doesn’t relate to a single design discipline and the exact responsibilities attached to a design manager will depend on the organization they work for, the size of that organization (and the tier in the hierarchy at which the manager operates), the industry they work in, the current market position and to a large extent the perceived importance of design to the business.That means that defining “design management” becomes a near impossible task

Creativity is the driving force behind new products, stand out ideas, improved efficiencies and problem solving. Creativity is the edge your organization needs to remain competitive and to grow. Creativity can only exist when people are trusted, free of judgment and encouraged to experiment.

To foster a creative environment you need to inject some freedom. People have to know they are free to break convention and take risks. They need to be given space to formulate different thinking. Most importantly, they need to be allowed to make mistakes and fail. When failure happens – and it will – give people the time they need to study the failure so they can make improvements for next time.

As conversational UIs continue to rise, messengers and bots are presenting with us a fundamentally new way to interact with computers.

Anne Landreat's insight:

"We’re innately tuned to converse with others. It’s how we share knowledge, how we organise ourselves, and how we share emotions. Language has been part of our makeup for hundreds of thousands of years. So of course we message all day long in bursts and binges, with family, friends, and colleagues. Messaging has become a layer through which daily lives are conducted."

Tough situations come for anyone and we all have different ways of dealing with them. For Akio Toyoda, the safest course seems to be to run at danger headlon...

Anne Landreat's insight:

Face and even run towards the danger as it moves on to you to avoid being caught half way where it will hurt you most: a lesson of leadership, agility and resilience learned by the body playing field hockey.

Sharing your scoops to your social media accounts is a must to distribute your curated content. Not only will it drive traffic and leads through your content, but it will help show your expertise with your followers.

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Distributing your curated content through a newsletter is a great way to nurture and engage your email subscribers will developing your traffic and visibility.
Creating engaging newsletters with your curated content is really easy.